(ABC News | November 20, 2011) – Terror plot thwarted, man arrested in NYC making bombs – A Muslim convert arrested for allegedly making bombs in New York City was inspired by radical cleric Anwar Awlaki and was allegedly plotting to attack U.S. servicemen and police officers, according to officials.
A five-count criminal complaint against Jose Pimentel of Washington Heights says that Pimentel planned “to build a bomb and use it to assassinate U.S. servicemen and women returning from active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg said during a press conference this evening that Pimentel, an unemployed loner who lives with his mother, also wanted to kill police officers, and called him a “27-year-old al Qaeda sympathizer.”
“We had to act quickly,” New York police commissioner Ray Kelly said, “because he was in fact putting this bomb together.” When arrested, officials say, Pimentel possessed the materials necessary to build a bomb.

- Predicted on ABC’s The View, Sunrise Australia, and various radio shows in 2011